Las Vegas, NevadaNovember 1957

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Summary

On November 25, 1957, a witness in Las Vegas, Nevada saw one round object. It was about the size of a half dollar at arm's length and yellowish orange in color. The object went down behind the mountains. It was in sight for only about two to seven seconds. This was a civilian, ground visual report.

The report was filed on Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the object was a meteor.

Reported location

Las Vegas, Nevada

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

NV / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 1

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| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
| I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS “3
| 5 3 0 Wos Balloon
295 November 1957 Las Vezas, Nevada 0 Probably Balloon ‘
3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
: % 0 Was Aircraft
Local —_— A Ground- Visual D Ground-Rador O Probably Aircraft
| MT 27 /U8407 0 Air Visuol 0 Air-Intarcept Rador 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical [LOO
Q Yas OZ Probably Astronomical
“CI No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical ;
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BY: ©) t hep! rissa Bits soit,
0 Insufficient Doto for Evaluation |
Sha SWRI O Unknown
2-7 seconds one down behind njountains
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
: One object round, size of half-dollar, Meteor sighting,
color yellowish- orange.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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